Risky Bodies and Techno-Intimacy traverses disparate and uncommon routes to explore how people grapple with the radical uncertainties of their lives. In this edgy, evocative journey through myriad interleaved engagements�including the political economies of cinema; the emergent shapes taken by insurance, debt, and mortgages; gender and sexuality; and domesticity and nationalism�Geeta Patel demonstrates how science and technology ground our everyday intimacies. The result is a deeply poetic and philosophical exploration of the intricacies of techno-intimacy, revealing a complicated and absorbing narrative that challenges assumptions underlying our daily living.

Geeta Patel is associate professor of both Middle Eastern and South Asian languages and cultures and of women, gender, and sexuality at the University of Virginia. She is author of Lyrical Movements, Historical Hauntings: Gender, Colonialism, and Desire in Miraji's Urdu Poetry.

Acknowledgements

Introduction | Paths to Inquiry, Pathways for the Inquisitive

1. Techno-homo: Translating Mayonnaise at Home

2. Heisenberg's Bodies: Ismat Chughtai in a Marital Fix, or Homely Housewives Run Amok

3. Firing Time: Techno-Intimacies of the Cinematic

4. Time's Travails

5. Memorial Figurations: Temporality, Cinematicrealism, and Finance

6. Risky Bodies: Life-Finance, Labour and Domesticated Technologies of Intimacy

Prelude after the Fact: Photographic Techno-Intimacies and the Question Of Method

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